(AMI) - Europe battle pork markets are marked just before Christmas by declining demand, but also by a declining range. Overall, the pig prices in most have stabilized countries. Often the previous quotes will endure unchanged until the new year.
France reported a balanced market situation and an unchanged price at the beginning of the week. Large amounts of pigs brought to the slaughter. For January, there bigger promotions in the food trade are expected, this should give toning impulses for the demand. Also in Belgium , the market situation is described now quiet after extensive slaughter in the anti-Government at also unchanged prices.
In Denmark , the rapporteurs expect a sharp decline of in demand due to the Annual closing of the processing industry. Accordingly, there is also the listing was slightly revised downwards.
In Spain the supply and demand conditions are nearly balanced towards year end. Accordingly, the price of pork has fastens. A slight market relief could there be also about that from the 4th January 2016 possible subsidised private storage in the EU. According to price pressure in the last week in Italy , the price at the end of the year stabilized there too. Italy is last in the European ranking after the slaughter pig price.
